I think I should have been Ireland captain. But I didn’t want to put that on Brian. I didn’t want it to seem like an ego trip: ‘I’ll only go back if I’m the captain.’ But I should have brought it up in the conversation.
I think Kenny enjoyed the media side of the role. We’d come in at the end of a game, and Kenny would come in after us, because he’d been talking to the TV people. That would piss me off, a bit. Don’t forget your place; it’s about the team.
It is hard to imagine a football team with Roy Keane on it, but the captain is Kenny Cunningham. Unfortunately for Keane, and Ireland they never got that fairytale ending, as the team failed to reach the World Cup in 2006, and retirement loomed once again.